| 英文摘要 |
Abstract poetry, influenced by abstract art, explores new possibilities in poetry as a language-based art form. Yang Xiaobin is a pioneer of Chinese abstract poetry. Following Xu Demin’s theory of Chinese abstract poetry, Yang experiments with overcoming randomness, breaking the binary oppositions between rationality and irrationality, concrete and abstract, as well as aiming to evoke profound spiritual resonance. He establishes a dialogue between abstract poetry and the other abstract arts. Through his consistent poetic approach, his dive into the connected deviations between signifiers and discourses, and Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theories, Yang has gradually formed a personalized abstract poetics with unique styles and theories. By analyzing Yang’s writing strategies, we can find that the“scrawling”in his abstract poetry differs from the“writing”in other postmodern poetry. It employs metonymies so as to reflect the spiritual world and inner traumas. From creation to reading, the rationality attached to the words and the linguistic system on which the signifiers rely are not negated. Instead, they become the field of creation and the space in which readers engage in free associations. Abstract poetry neither cancels reading nor allows arbitrary interpretations. The exploration of abstract poetics is a way to activate abstract poetry once again. |